Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended to (!) I may go again. LESTER PENNIMAN...
...opinion Mr. Palmer-Jones' trouble is that he has become used to your style except where it touches the Windsor family...
...posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience, has been the discovery of the fact that the U. S., including the hinterland, will clap hands for fine drama as loudly as it does for good circuses, jazz bands, leg shows. Rockbound is about a salty...
...Brooklyn Standard-Union told how he was one of seven "ghosts" who wrote articles signed by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Said President Walter M. Harrison of the Society: "After this ... I would be ready to believe that former President Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly.* I agree with Shuman that you fellows have been chumps on this big name business." ¶ Publisher-Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas (Topeka Daily Capital) pleaded for the maintenance of strong...
...concentration has been somewhat changed this year, and instead books are being presented which are of more general bibliographical interest. More copies than usual have been bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover of each book...